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Old 03-29-2012, 07:41 PM   #34 (permalink)
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Originally Posted by Big Dave View Post
. it has to be overpowered enough to maneuver easily in normal traffic. Something that accelerates like a Mercedes 240D ain't gonna cut it. It needs a heater/defroster and an air conditioner.
I don't get this argument. Europe has far smaller cars and generally higher speed limits. All these cars have heaters, most modern ones have air conditioning too.

And yet I've never heard of a car deemed dangerously slow. Slow, paintfully slow, but never dangerously slow.
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